THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 April 2016 on a European network of employment services (EURES), workers' access to mobility services and further integration of labour markets, and amending Regulations (EU) No 492/2011 and (EU) No 1296/2013, and in particular Article 19(6) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EU) 2016/589 establishes a common IT platform to bring together job vacancies, and job applications and CVs (job seeker profiles) in the European Union.
(2)
To enable the matching of job vacancies with job applications and job seeker profiles, the information must be exchanged according to a uniform system, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, based on common technical standards and formats.
(3)
For the purpose of a high quality multilingual matching on the common IT platform, Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589 provides for the use of a European classification of skills, competences and occupations.
(4)
Member States who choose not to use the European classification in their national systems for job vacancies and job seeker profiles connected to the single coordinated channel, within the meaning of Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, must make a mapping between the classifications used by those systems and the European classification to allow interoperability.
(5)
The mapping between national, regional or sectoral classifications and the European classification requires the establishment and regular updating of inventories and tables for mapping.
(6)
To facilitate the establishment and updating of such mapping inventories and tables and the subsequent exchange of information based on the mapping the Commission should provide the necessary technical standards and formats and the appropriate technical applications to support it.
(7)
By publishing and sharing their national mapping tables with other Member States and the Commission the Member States will contribute to the development and improvement of the European classification and services and tools provided by EURES such as the algorithms for search and matching engines.
(8)
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the EURES Committee,
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